Stumbling upon places and cultures: An involuntary ethnography in researching the Australian ‘ndrangheta

In the past decade, the attention to the Calabrian mafia, the ?ndrangheta, has been rekindled everywhere in the world. On the one hand, Italian attention to the phenomenon has increased; on the other hand, the mobility of the Calabrian clans has been the object of scrutiny in view of the clan?s weal...

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Main Author: Sergi, Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Journal of criminology
Year: 2021, Volume: 54, Issue: 4, Pages: 448-465
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Keywords:
Australia
Calabria
Methodology
Organized crime
Reflexivity
mafia
mafia mobility
‘ndrangheta

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